Is there anywhere i can exchange italian lira & french francs for euros?

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Level 1
Is there anywhere i can exchange italian lira & french francs for euros?
I was on a trip to Italy about 6 years ago,when i was moving i discovered i had a suitcase full of french francs and lira is is there anyway i can exchange them or should i just throw them away i have about 80,000 francs and 200million lira

to the ppl that said it wasnt 200 million lire we counted its four hundred 500,000 lire notes

Answer 1

200 million lira is about 100.000 (one hundred thousand dollars) if you send them to me i will manage to exchange them, but you should let me keep a gooD 25%
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i think you have only 200 thousand liras... i think that you can change them only at the banca d'italia in rome, via xx settembre.

Answer 2

I was living in Italy when the lire was introduced, and the commercials on TV said that after a certain date (in 2002), lire could only be exchanged at the Banca d'Italia.

Are you sure you have 200 million lire? That's over $100,000. And you have about $16,000 in francs. Why can't I ever find money like that in a suitcase?

Answer 3

Oh how sad. That's a lot of francs and lire to have held onto in a suitcase.
I think they are defunct since they are no longer in use.

Answer 4

Perhaps all is not lost. Here's a New York Times article: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9F00EED7153BF934A15752C0A9649C8B63

Plan a trip to each of those countries within the next five years or so, go to the national bank and voilà!

Hope that helps!

Answer 5

You can usually exchange foreign currency in the U.S. in any NATIONAL bank... it will have the word "National" in it's name.

Answer 6

you can like send money to this place or exchange it at an airport!